INTRODUCTION: Readmission from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to acute care hospitals is a serious problem. This study aims to develop a predictive model based on machine learning algorithms to identify patients at high risk of readmission.
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Sep 18, 2018
BACKGROUND: Patients suffering obstructive sleep apnea are mainly treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Although it is a highly effective treatment, compliance with this therapy is problematic to achieve with serious consequences f...
The journal of applied laboratory medicine
Sep 17, 2018
BACKGROUND: Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) 99th percentile cutoffs, used in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, are not standardized across cTnI assays. We compared 3 point-of-care (POC) and 1 central laboratory contemporary cTnI assays against ...
OBJECTIVE: Human-robot coordination (HRC) aims to enable human and robot to form a tightly coupled system to accomplish a task. One of its important application prospects is to improve the physical function of the disabled. However, the low level of ...
BACKGROUND: The advantages of Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RARP) over open radical prostatectomy (ORP) in Prostate cancer perioperatively are well-established, but quality of life is more contentious. Increasingly, patients are utilisin...
OBJECTIVE: Many healthcare systems employ population-based risk scores to prospectively identify patients at high risk of poor outcomes, but it is unclear whether single point-in-time scores adequately represent future risk. We sought to identify and...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Sep 17, 2018
BACKGROUND: Walking in daily life is complex entailing various prerequisites such as leg strength, trunk stability or cognitive and motor dual task (DT) activities. Conventional physiotherapy can be complemented with robot-assisted gait therapy (RAGT...
Veterinary parasitology, regional studies and reports
Sep 15, 2018
Since 2012, New Zealand has suffered from an epidemic of infectious bovine anaemia associated with T. orientalis (Ikeda), an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite of cattle. Despite widespread agreement that T. orientalis (Ikeda) infection has im...
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